Woman with severed head of a child shuts down Moscow Metro

A Burkha clad woman was seen outside a metro station in Moscow, walking around with a severed head of a child. The Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station was shut suspecting terror activities.

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India Today Web Desk

New Delhi

February 29, 2016

UPDATED: February 29, 2016 17:44 IST

Moscow's Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station has been shut after a Burkha clad woman took out a 4-year-old girl's severed head from her bag. The woman has been identified as 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan named Gyulchekhra Bobokulova.

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Russia's Interior Ministry has confirmed in a statement that the woman had been carrying severed head of a child, thought to be a 4-year-old girl, whom she had been babysitting.

Police had found a child's dead body at the scene of a fire in an apartment block near to the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro station earlier today, reports The Telegraph. Russia Today reports she shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "I'm a terrorist" over and over.

The woman waited until the parents left the apartment, killed the girl and removed her head, said the investigators. She then set the apartment on fire hoping she would destroy evidence.

When police approached and asked for documents, the woman took out the severed head out of her bag and threatened to detonate explosives. The Police haven't found any explosives on her, though. The woman is also suspected to be under the influence of drugs.

Muscovite Alyona Kuratova, an eyewitness who saw Bobokulova with the child's head told Russia's TV Rain, "I saw that a woman was walking near the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro, near the road, all in black. She had not even some kind of bundle, but a head. Maybe it was a child's head, like they were whispering in the crowd. She was shouting something."

The Russian Police have not classified the incident as terrorism yet, but a probe is on.

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